pegdot
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Chad, I've gotta ask.....what size room is the stove in? Does it have loads of windows or a high ceiling?
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The room is approx. 14 feet wide and about 18 feet long. The house is relatively wide open as you can see in the attached photo. The attachment shows my entire floor plan. The house is 1300 sq ft. I don't heat the mudroom, 2nd and 3rd bedrooms. The pellet stove is the blue dot in the living room. The green lines represent windows and doors. There are alot of windows in the room...but they all have storm windows in them and are relatively air tight. The same can be said for the exterior door that is in the room. It has a storm door on it and is not used at all. We enter through the mudroom, never using the door in the living room. The ceiling is an 8 foot ceiling, it is one of those drop ceilings. There is about a 6 inch gap between the suspended ceiling and the regular ceiling. I do have some of the tiles removed above the stove from when I put the metal bestos chimney back in. So some of my heat could be going up in between the regular ceiling and the dropped ceiling...
Oh almost forgot, filled the hopper on the stove last night around 5-5:15 had the stove set on 5-6-1 and a heat setting of 1-6. Woke up this morning got ready and checked the stove at 7 oclock...out of pellets...burned a whole bag in 13-14 hours... :-(
Nice thread..I have the same stove and have my own thread about fixing the smoke smell blowing out of the stove..I have the same issue and my stove ash looks the same as in the pix...I have the oak installed as it is needed in a mobile home setting. If you have gas appliances is is very important to have outside air for your stove as you could draw air from say the water heater vent and bring fumes into a tight house...I use pennington pellets from Lowe's...I found a place about 15 miles away that sells all oak pellets for 235 a ton. As for those lower three buttons, I guess you push the button itself and it's setting shows in the upper display correct? Do you push it again to get the settings to change...I'll be anxious to see your settings as my stove really cranks through pellets but the room is 80 degrees..Thanks for the help...God Bless You...Kim
pegdot
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I'm really stumped since we're talking about the same square footage and my floor plan isn't nearly as open as yours. My stove is in a living/dining room area that's 15 x 36 and those two adjoining rooms never fall below about 72 degrees even during a long cold spell. Usually, it's between 74 to 76 degrees in there with temps of 70 to 71 in the rest of the house. My house is old, leaky, and way under insulated so I think your problem has to do with that drop ceiling. For sure, replace those missing panels and see if it makes any difference. Just for kicks you might try taking the temperature between the ceilings just to see if that's where all your heat is going. BTW, is that large black rectangle in your drawing a central chimney? Any chance heat is escaping through it?
The black space is an area that consists of the stairs down to the basement and the chimney. Standing in my living room, kitchen or dining room you wouldn't even know that the chimney was there. The only access poitn to the chimney is in the basement where the hot air furnace is. That being said I'm pretty sure the heat isn't going out the chimney. I'm working on putting my ceiling titles back in, it's a pain with those dropped ceilings! I'm also going to put some insulation into the house today. This house is old and horribly insulated.
For comparison, what are your settings on your stove Peg? Also what heat/blower settings do you usually operate at? What is your average pellet consumption?
I'm going to try and get to a store today to buy a different brand of pellets to see how those fair in this stove. I'm burning Corinth Premium Hardwoods right now.
-Chad
For comparison, what are your settings on your stove Peg? Also what heat/blower settings do you usually operate at? What is your average pellet consumption?
I'm going to try and get to a store today to buy a different brand of pellets to see how those fair in this stove. I'm burning Corinth Premium Hardwoods right now.
-Chad
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I have been reading along here good idea replacing the tiles,
I see your stove pretty much faces your kitchen / dinning room correct? If so why not try a counter clockwise air rotation using small fans from stove blower in living room to dinning room/kitchen then back around to master bedroom area.
Not sure if it helps but my stove was made in 07/08 with factory settings at 6-4-1 but have since altered them to 5-6-1 burning pennington hardwood pellets.
(I tried 4-6-1 but the flame is nonexistant at times)
Stove starts on 5-5, After start up I go to 3-4 or 4-4, as house warms up I drop to 2-2 or 2-3, Bed time 1-2 or 1-3
I have yet to get 24 hours out a bag of pellets but I think if I started up and went to 1-2 maybe I would get 20 to 22 hours?
I see your stove pretty much faces your kitchen / dinning room correct? If so why not try a counter clockwise air rotation using small fans from stove blower in living room to dinning room/kitchen then back around to master bedroom area.
Not sure if it helps but my stove was made in 07/08 with factory settings at 6-4-1 but have since altered them to 5-6-1 burning pennington hardwood pellets.
(I tried 4-6-1 but the flame is nonexistant at times)
Stove starts on 5-5, After start up I go to 3-4 or 4-4, as house warms up I drop to 2-2 or 2-3, Bed time 1-2 or 1-3
I have yet to get 24 hours out a bag of pellets but I think if I started up and went to 1-2 maybe I would get 20 to 22 hours?
Thanks for the info Pelletizer. My stove was manufactured 10/08...not sure if I said that before. I have been using a couple fans to try and move the air in different patterns. I have tried something similiar to your idea and it works quite well.
I got my basement reinsulated today. Going to get some plastic to insulate my bilco/bulk head and also going to put plastic around my house. I have my tiles almost back up in the ceiling, damn things are such a pain!
-Chad
I got my basement reinsulated today. Going to get some plastic to insulate my bilco/bulk head and also going to put plastic around my house. I have my tiles almost back up in the ceiling, damn things are such a pain!
-Chad
pegdot
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My stove is set on 4-9-1 and we usually run it on 1 or 2 during the day and 3 to 5 on cold nights. I usually have the blower speed set to match the feed rate or just a number or two higher. I'm home all day so the stove gets adjusted a lot. Gotta get a stat sooner or later but then what would I do with my free time? 
I really haven't kept up with my pellet usage very well. (Shhh....don't tell anyone or they'll kick me out of the Pellet Pigs.) I do know that on our coldest nights last year, with the stove on 5 or 6, I'd top off the hopper, 60 lbs., about 11 PM and if I didn't add more pellets by around 10 AM she'd run out. So, I'd say mine eats in poundage pretty doggone close to the number on the heat range. 5 equals 5lbs. per hour or close anyway.
All I did was decide which was the coldest room in the house and then I placed a small floor fan in the doorway of that room blowing towards the stove. For our house that did the trick. Once the air is circulating well I can shut off the fan and the air keeps going unless some idiot (Hubby) opens to many doors at once.....don't ask! :roll: :lol:
I really haven't kept up with my pellet usage very well. (Shhh....don't tell anyone or they'll kick me out of the Pellet Pigs.) I do know that on our coldest nights last year, with the stove on 5 or 6, I'd top off the hopper, 60 lbs., about 11 PM and if I didn't add more pellets by around 10 AM she'd run out. So, I'd say mine eats in poundage pretty doggone close to the number on the heat range. 5 equals 5lbs. per hour or close anyway. All I did was decide which was the coldest room in the house and then I placed a small floor fan in the doorway of that room blowing towards the stove. For our house that did the trick. Once the air is circulating well I can shut off the fan and the air keeps going unless some idiot (Hubby) opens to many doors at once.....don't ask! :roll: :lol:
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